Scott doesn’t support study into clean water funding options

Gov. Phil Scott at a press conference. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
Legislators and Gov. Phil Scott agree that Vermont needs to find a long-term funding source to clean up water pollution. But the governor says he opposes the only existing proposal to accomplish that — a bill that unanimously passed the Senate on Thursday.Just minutes after the bill passed, Scott said he was against it, despite admitting that he hadn’t read it. He said his staff had identified it as containi